Monday, 24 June 2013

Assignment 1

Assignment 1: My hand-made story

Read a story and make a presentation:

Step 1. Find a group of 5 students (This represents how you work as a team)

Step 2. Find and read an interesting story

(It can be Aesop’s fables, Grimm’s story or any Fairy Story which has a moral.)

Step 3. Summarize the story and create a mini presentation

(Your presentation can be a pop-up book, a story chart, a VDO clip or finger puppets.)

Step 4. Send your presentation to me.

Step 5. You will be asked about the story you read.

(The questions will be about the characters in the story, the summary of the story and moral.)

Criteria (10 points)

Story (1 point)

# the story is interesting

Creativity and Imagination (4 points)

# Using colors, Planning, Design, Decoration

You should create your own story from your imagination

Responsibility (2 points)

#Submit, Thursday 18^th July 2013 before lunch

at M.1 Teacher’s room

#-1 point for a day late

# Students who don’t hand the note-book before Friday19^th July 2013, their parents will be contacted directly by the teacher.

Questions (3 points)

# able to answer 3 questions (3 points)

# able to answer 2 questions (2 points)

# able to answer 1 question (1 points)

Student will be randomly asked the questions

The questions will be about the characters in the story, the summary of the story and moral.

Total 10 Points

If you have any questions, contact 085-8795858, 081-6026969

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Adjectives

Adjectives

* An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or a pronoun.

There is an old tree behind the shed.

* An adjective gives us more information about the subject in the sentence—what kind, how many, which one.

orange flowers, black pony, five stars, one hour, baked beans

* A proper adjective is one that is derived out of a proper noun. A proper adjective always begins with a capital letter.

Bengal tiger, American actor, French toast

* Limiting adjectives restrict the meaning of the noun without describing it. Here are some examples. this house, some people

A. Circle the adjectives in these sentences.

1. The bananas are not ripe yet.

2. My uncle always tells us funny stories.

3. It was cold and wet yesterday.

4. The cool breeze was making everyone sleepy.

5. What are those posters about?

6. My friend is an expert in European languages.

7. The hungry children couldn't wait to get home.

8. The sandwiches taste delicious.

9. Several people in the queue could not get tickets.

10. Whom does the red car belong to?

B. Complete the sentences with adjectives from the box.

wonderful weak incomplete empty

bold thrifty cloudy dirty

sour lazy

1. The milk smells sour . Let's throw it away.

2. The sky looks cloudy . It may start raining any time.

3. Sam has recovered from his illness, but he is still very weak .

4. The market is empty. There is no one to be seen.

5. Mr Scrooge is careful with his money. He is thrifty.

6. Tina's report on the accident was incomplete She had to leave town

before she could complete it.

7. Paula described the wonderful experience she had on the roller

coaster.

8. Hannah put all the dirty clothes in the washing-machine.

9. He felt too lazy to walk and took a taxi to work.

10. She is very bold and often does sea swimming.

C. Write three adjectives to describe each person in this list.

1. Your mother - kind , warm , beautiful

2. Your father - special , brave , handsome

3. Your best friend - nice , friendly , happy

4. Your neighbour - generous , smart , funny

5. Your pet - pretty , adorable , brainy

Appositives

*An appositive is a noun that follows and explains another noun. My sister, Sarah,is a very good dancer.

*An appositive phrase is a group of words that describes a noun.

Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, is one of the busiest cities in the world.

Complete these sentences with appropriate appositives.

1. My cousin , James , bought me chocolate

2. My friend , John , has two dogs and a cat.

3. Bill, our English teacher, asked us to write an essay.

4. My cat , Mick , loves to sleep in the armchair.

5. Greece , a beautiful town , attracts many tourists.

Underline the appositive phrases in these sentences.

1. Mr Jones, our neighbour, bought a new car.

2. Beethoven, a famous musician, was completely deaf.

3. Venus , the closest planet to Earth, is also the hottest planet in the Solar system.

4. Coffee, a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, is very popular all over the world.

5. Tibet, a country in the Himalayas, is the highest region on Earth.

6. Papaya, a fruit that grows only in tropical countries, is very rich in iron.

Compound Nouns

A noun that is made up of two or more words is called a compound noun. father-in-law, doormat

Write the plural forms of these compound nouns.

1. passer-by passers by

2. blackboard blackboards

3. watering can watering cans

4. great-uncle great uncles

5. lighthouse lighthouses

6. household households

7. shopkeeper shopkeepers

8. handout handouts

9. knockout knockouts

10. son-in-law sons-in-law

Possessive Nouns

*A possessive form of a noun shows ownership.

*A singular noun is changed into the possessive form by adding an apostrophe and -s. teacher's desk

*A plural noun that ends with -s or -es can be changed into the possessive form by adding an apostrophe.

trees' trunks

*Plural nouns that do not end in -s or -es can be changed into the possessive form by adding an apostrophe and -s.

children's park

Complete these sentences using the possessive form of the word given in brackets.

1. My father got a phone call from my aunt’s (aunt) house.

2. Anna’s (Anna) parents are away on vacation

3.Tom’s (Tom) pets are very cute.

4. Please buy some vegetable from the greengrocer’s (greengrocer) store.

5. It is dangerous to enter a lion’s (lion) den.

6. Enid Blyton’s (Enid Blyton) sories are delightful to read.

7. A nightingale’s (nightingale) call is very melodious.

8.The soldiers’ (soldiers) guns were neatly arranged in a row.

Monday, 17 June 2013